An atom revolves upon its axis. In its revolution it
comes within the field of activity of other atoms. These it either attracts and swings
into its own field of operation, or it repulses and drives them outside its range of
activity, causing separation. One thing to be borne in mind in the concept of mutual
attraction is the preservation of identity in cohesion.

A human being
in objective manifestation likewise revolves upon his axis, or around his central point,
his mainspring of animation; this brings him within the range of activity of other men,
other human atoms. This similarly either tends to cooperation or cohesion, or to
separation or repulsion. Again it must be borne in mind that even in cohesion identity is
preserved. [280]

A
Heavenly Man, through the form of a planetary chain, similarly revolves upon His
axis, and a like phenomenon may be observed. A planet repulses a planet similarly charged,
for it is a known law that like particles repel each other, but occultly it is a known law
that they will eventually attract each other as the vibration becomes sufficiently strong.
A negative planet will be attracted by a positive, and so on through all forms. This is
the manifestation of SEX in substance of every kind, from the tiny atom in the body to the
vast planetary chains, and this is the basis of activity. Radiatory activity is simply the
interplay between male and female, and this can be seen in the physical atom of the
scientist, among men and women, and in the vaster atom of a solar system as it vibrates
with its cosmic opposite.

We might, therefore, consider time as that process of activity, or that
progression in development, wherein the indwelling Consciousness is seeking its opposite,
and coming under the Law of Attraction, which leads to atomic, human, planetary,
spiritual, solar and cosmic marriage. This idea is comparatively simple in relation to a
human being, and can be seen in daily demonstration in his contacts with other men; these
contacts are governed, for instance, very largely by his likes and dislikes. All these
attractions and repulsions are under law, and their cause exists in form itself.
The emotion of like or of dislike is nothing else but the realization by the conscious
entity of the swinging into his magnetic radius of an atomic form which he is led, by the
very law of his own being, to either attract or repulse. Only when the form is
transcended, and Spirit seeks out Spirit, will the phenomena of repulsion cease. This will
be the inevitable finale at the cessation of solar evolution, and it will bring about
pralaya. The duration of the interplay, the period of the search of Spirit for Spirit, and
[281] the vibratory process necessitated by the utilization of the form, this we call
Time, whether in connection with a man, a planetary Logos, or the Deity.

Space,
again, is included in the idea of consciousness, and its utilization of matter. Space, for
the Logos, is literally the form wherein His conscious activities and purposes are worked
out - the solar ring-pass-not. The space wherein a planetary Logos works out His plans is
similarly as much of solar space as His consciousness is developed enough to use. Man
again repeats the process and his ring-pass-not is included in the radius of his
consciousness, and may be very circumscribed as in the case of the little evolved, or may
be inclusive of a portion of planetary space of great extent, and even in the case of the
very highly evolved may begin to touch the periphery of the sphere of influence of the
planetary Logos in Whose body he is a cell.

Space for
the atom (for instance, the atom in the physical body of man) will be the radius of the
form in which is found the greater center of consciousness of which it is a part and it
will be both attracted and repulsed - attracted and built into the form of the greater
Life, yet repulsed and thereby prevented from moving from a certain point within that
form.

We have here dealt a little with time and space in their relation to a specific center
of consciousness; we have seen that they are simply forms of ideas to express the
cyclic activity of an entity. The subject is exceedingly abstruse, due to the low
stage of the human intelligence, which is as yet so occupied with the objective or
material side of manifestation that the attraction existing between Spirit and Spirit is
little more than a concept. When more of the human family have their center of
consciousness in the Ego and hence are busy with the work of repulsing matter, and with
the withdrawal of [282] Spirit from form, then only will the transmutative process be
comprehended, then only will time (as known in the three worlds) be transcended, and then
only will space (as manifested to man through the three lower planes or the eighteen
subplanes) be found to be a barrier. This same statement can be predicated of the seven
Logoi and of the solar Logos, extending the idea to other planes, solar and cosmic. So
also can it be narrowed down to the subhuman, and to the involutionary lives, remembering
ever that as the consciousness is more confined and restricted so inertia, lack of
response, and limitation of radiation will be seen.